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Allow muting a person only for me
Sometimes I am in a meeting where one of the persons in the meeting is actually near me in the world outside the screen. In this case the sound is a bit maddening since there is a small delay between the sound from the person and the sound through the teams interface. In these cases, I would like to mute the person only for me since I am sitting near and can hear the person fine without headphones. Right now I need to takeoff headphones when the person is talking and putting it back as the person finishes talking.
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Good news, this actually exists. In an active Teams meeting, hover over that person's video tile or name in the participant list, click the three-dot menu, and select Mute for me (sometimes shown as Spotlight/Mute options depending on your Teams version). It mutes their audio on your end only, everyone else still hears them normally, and it's fully reversible mid-meeting with the same menu.
No settings change or admin action needed, it's a per-call, per-person toggle you control yourself. Should save you the headphone dance entirely.
Cannot confirm. I still only see the button that mutes a person for everyone in the call. Is this still rolling out?
Please add this Microsoft
Please implement this feature as described
Microsoft, please implement this feature as described!
6 years since I first came across this issue and the feature is STILL not there!?
This is a very needed feature for multiple person offices!
Someone from Microsoft should check why this minor and very needed feature is not there yet
Please do something about this, we want this feature to be implemented
This feature would make it significantly easier to concentrate in meetings without having the "echo" created by hearing the voice of someone in the room with me twice. It is not always possible to move out of the shared office space to join in one location.
Why is it so hard to implement simple stuff like this????
Also adapting the volume per person.
That's standard stuff for voice group calls!
